Coming: A Movie to Your Home in Half a Second
A system that would deliver movies and other content to home viewers on demand instantaneously was unveiled today (Thursday) by Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co., the country's second-largest electric utility firm. The French news agency Agence France Presse reported that the company had developed a technology that can transmit a two-hour movie over fiber-optic cables mounted on power-transmission towers in half a second. The wire service quoted a company spokesman as saying that the transmission speed of one terabyte per second is more than 100 times faster than current high-speed Internet transmissions.

Quite misleading me thinks, or do normal houses have power-transmission towers? Anyhow, fibre optic links are nothing new and there are faster things than DSL out there for years (e.g. ATM). The speed mentioned is nothing but impressive though it's probably way too expensive for our average consumer ...